RB's motivation: Vanellope tights, 3rd times the charm?

I am currently awaiting to take off the finished tights and scrub paint off myself. But while I wait, let me write up my experience. Surprised it took me this long to realize, Oh I can paint things,........art school will be terrible or great for my common sense

So here is the start off. I taped up my legs to get clean edges and an idea of the size for each stripe, really I should know by now. But beware I taped my thigh and upper calf too tight and it really affected the painting process. Because I was worried about cutting off circulation (hypochondriac senses at too early) I did not wait long enough for things to dry and you will see.

 Started the first stripe. I had to use acrylic paint b/c I forgot to buy white fabric paint at the store, didn't think I could vani done on a insomnia night int he week so only got black, purple and red. PURPLE OVER WHITE? What sickness do I have now? SO that affected things. Because acrylic is plastic and dries easilly it's really thick and does not cling to fabric too well.

 As you can see hear. I tore off the tape after ten minutes, because I don't want to end up like house MD. And here I am stretching it off myself. B/c with thin fabric and heavy paint, it'll seep through and stick to your skin. But it's fine, bc it will wash off bc it's plastic. (ACRYLIC IS VERSATILE GET OVER IT OILS) But still it's plastic so if it doesn't bond and let dry it will stretch and crack. Can't really see here, but let's say this will help with the glitch effect of her character. It's much worse on the second stripe.

So I was impatient and decided to take on the black part as well. I used the smaller fabric paint here bc it was thinner. And I will tell you, getting the first few spritz out of that thing was BAD. It sprayed my like a baby penis, so be careful, always point the tips down to your plate or fabric. IT WILL GET YOU UNLESS YOU TAME IT.

 Here they are all painted up while the last dries. I decided to wait the last guy out bc he wasn't wrapped to tight which was good. I waited a whole Strokes album for him to finish and it wasn't too bad. It had the same crackling but the last stripe is kind of covered by boot so it's fine.

 Here they are all finished. You can't tell the flaws from this resolution but they are there and I accept them way better than half finished sewing. PANTS ON THE GROUND BECAUSE FUCK IT NOBODY'S AWAKE I DO WHAT I WANT

I will update on the taking off process. I'm never going to wash these but I can assure the paint will stay
forever as a stain.

And here we go. Here they are after peeling them off my legs, hanging on the lamp. Before I realized the paints gonna stick to itself. ANd so I have to stretch them....into a really weird shape

Here's what fucking happens when you paint leggings. It's not surprising at all. just if you have sensitive skin. I recommend being over precocious and taping napkins to you skin under the areas you're going to paint. So that way it'll stretch more and just stain the napkin. Not your eczema. Because I had to scrub for a good ten minutes with lotion and water, wasn't too bad for the painting I did. 

Strange shapes indeed bro. I swear it's not a bong. This is the part where I need mannequins. I had to improvise with a whole paper towel roll and a roll of duct tape. The middle is being a bitch and sticking to himself but hopefully it'll get better. These are forever going to be the fragile fankenstein tights

Next on revamping cosplays KugelMugel's hat and possibly Vanellopes twizler!

-RB out

RB's motivation 2014: Vanellope leggings REDO 1

So i've never been too satisfied with the way I had one cheek hanging out of my leggings the first day of GK. As well as worrying about the stripes falling down from the other leg. All in all these leggings were a good first try. But now I really want to redo them, and I'm determined to try and do them by TOMORROW/SUNDAY. Because at Geekplastique if you go in cosplay on their anniversary sale you get a discount, so good motivation I think for something that would be getting pushed down on the list otherwise

So here I have the old leggings since the good half is salvageable. I'm taking the stripes and pinning them to the half. I actually wore them while pinning to get the stretching. It was horrible to take off, little scared what it's going to be like to sow them later. 

Theme of this post. LETS GET RB A SEWING MACHINE!!!

So here's the new stockings I bought from a portland sex shop! Since nobody sells this color in stripes! Still managed to not fit. I'm a petite person......this should not be that difficult..... YET IT IS SO MUFFIN TOP THIGHS HOORAY.

 And another picture of the other half of the mint tights that thankgod I saved from last year, knew from the start this was going to be a redo

Another pic of the old leggings with the pinned stripes. See the lime green portion, how it's on my thigh not my butt where it's supposed to be. See also how they used to be tights, and had to cut a hole to shove my foot through to become leggings so they could be somewhat wearable

 So new stripe, cut off the elastic so blood will not be cut off from the rest of my leg. And attached it to the  top/waist part of the old scrap

 And here they are all pinned together hanging from a chandelier like Sia. A little scared of the difference here, but tried to give a lot of pillow space because I don't want the same mistake again. Hopefully it's just a little stretch and not one saggy buttcheek

 Here's the close up of the pins. ironic how I cut them off to start only to sew them back together again. Like medallion twins or some shit

 And some extra. Didn't think to grab a seam ripper when I was already running up the block at midnight to tricia's for fabric scissors and pins. I'm a mess.
So had to just cut a portion of lime green to seperate the old to attach to the new. I give you a labia, I think.

All this shit at 1 am. Another post, another cosplay coming soon
-RB out